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Prior to the school's opening in 1972, the township's students had attended Merchantville High School in neighboring Camden County for 40 years. With the loss of Maple Shade students, the Merchantville School District closed its high school after the end of the 1971–72 school year and started sending its students to Pennsauken High School for grades nine through twelve.
Prior to the opening of Maple Shade High School in 1972, the township's students had been sent for 40 years to Merchantville High School in neighboring Camden County. With the loss of Maple Shade students, Merchantville closed its high school after the end of the 1971-72 school year and started sending its students to Pennsauken High School for ...
But with the loss of Maple Shade students to the new Maple Shade High School in 1972, Merchantville closed its high school after the end of the 1971-72 school year and started sending its students to Pennsauken High School for grades nine through twelve. [8]
The school, which opened in 1929, served students from Merchantville and from the neighboring communities of Cherry Hill and Pennsauken Township, as well as Maple Shade Township in Burlington County. [1] Students from Pennsauken Township left the high school with the opening of Pennsauken High School in September 1959. [2]
Maple Shade Township is a township in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 19,980, [10] [11] an increase of 849 (+4.4%) from the 2010 census count of 19,131, [20] [21] which in turn reflected an increase of 0.3% from the 19,079 counted in the 2000 census.
People from Maple Shade Township, New Jersey (12 P) Pages in category "Maple Shade Township, New Jersey" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
In May, the district school board voted 6–3 to name the school after Bayard Rustin, the West Chester-born civil rights leader and principal organizer of the historic 1963 March on Washington, during which Martin Luther King Jr delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. It chose the name over an alternate option, Maple Shade High School. [9]
The league consists of nineteen public and parochial high schools covering Burlington County (Doane Academy), Mercer County (Trenton Catholic Academy, and STEMCivics Purplefect Palace High School), Ocean County (New Egypt High School) in central New Jersey and Camden County (Pennsauken High School).